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DIRETORIA
Presidente
Antonio Carlos de Camargo
Instituto de Pesquisas Tecnológicas do Estado de São Paulo S/A- IPT
Vice-Presidente
Edmilson Ricelli dos Passos
Elfusa Geral de Eletrofusão Ltda.
Diretor Administrativo-Financeiro
Juliana Marchi
Universidade Federal do ABC
Diretor de Publicações
Fernando Ortega dos Santos
Centro Universitário FEI Diretor de Assuntos Empresariais
Mauro Akerman
Akerman Desenvolvimento Proissional Ltda. Diretor de Assuntos Especiais
Edgar Dutra Zanotto
Universidade Federal de São Carlos Diretor de Comissões Técnicas
Ulisses Soares do Prado
Lining Representação, Consultoria e Projetos Ltda. Diretor de Comunicações
Válquiria de Fátima Justo
Escola Politécnica da Universidade de São Paulo Diretor de Eventos
Samuel Marcio Toffoli
Escola Politécnica da USP
CONSELHO Presidente do Conselho
Luís Leonardo Horne Curimbaba Ferreira
Mineração Curimbaba Ltda.
Categorias Patrocinador / Coletivo Elfusa Geral Eletrofusão Ltda.
Leandro César Ribeiro
Imerys Fused Minerals Salto Ltda.
Túlio Lissandro Melo de Morais
Mineração Curimbaba Ltda.
Nelson Tourón Martinez Junior
Categorias Individual, Júnior e Instituição
Dolores Ribeiro Ricci Lazar
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares – IPEN
Francisco Cristóvão Lourenço de Melo
Instituto de Aeronáutica e Espaço-IAE-AMR
Gelmires de Araújo Neves
Universidade Federal de Campina Grande – UFCG
Humberto Naoyuki Yoshimura
Universidade Federal do ABC – UFABC
Luiz Fernando Grespan Setz
Universidade Federal do ABC – UFABC
Monica Chiusano
Consultora
Renata Ayres Rocha
Universidade Federal do ABC
Ruth Herta Goldschmidt Aliaga Kiminami
Universidade Federal de São Carlos
Sebastião Ribeiro
Escola de Engenharia de Lorena / Universidade de São Paulo
Sonia Regina Homem de Mello Castanho
Instituto de Pesquisas Energéticas e Nucleares – IPEN
Associação Brasileira de Cerâmica
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d i t o r i a l
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/0366-69132016623630000evelopment in the ield of advanced ceramics represents a great
opportunity for a country such as Brazil that possesses resources, tradition and a consolidated industrial network both for mining and production of functional ceramic. The step toward emerging advanced technologies for energy, environment, chemical, optical and mechanical applications, is thus not only possible but due, also considering the abundant energetic resources and strategic reserves of key elements and rare earths in the Brazilian territory. In this scenario, education, academic research and the
kind of scientiic dissemination done by this journal are doubtless important
ingredients to prepare the country to such new opportunities.
My experience with the Brazilian academic environment is irmly
embedded in this scenario. In almost 15 years of professional exchange with Brazilian academia I have experienced different levels of collaboration and exchange programs, with some of the core members in advanced ceramics for energy conversion community in Brazil.
Starting as visiting PhD student, I made research in the ield of new ceramic
materials for solid oxide fuel cell. Today, this technology has put strong roots in the country for the conversion of bio-fuels, attracting also the interest of
the international community both at scientiic and industrial levels. Since
those early years my link with the Brazilian academia has been developing and strengthening, also thanks to the several important exchange programs promoted by the country. Especially, under the CNPq program “Science
without Borders”, I had the chance to fulil my growing desire of cooperating
with the new generation of scientists, both by hosting selected PhD students to the Technical University of Denmark and, as invited senior researcher,
by coordinating their activities in scientiic projects in nanotechnologies in
Brazil. In both the cases, I found motivated and prepared individuals, greedy to experience different ways to make research abroad but also conscious of their important role in their community. Despite the rapid changes investing the country, I can recognize in the new generations the same resilient spirit of their supervisors, teachers and professors I met in the early years of my career. This is the same spirit that motivates me in continuing cooperating with the
Brazilian scientiic community and which, I believe, is foundational of this
journal.
Vincenzo Esposito
